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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduates at Cornell pack Bailey Hall for concerts, they provide a moderately large audience at the Dramatic Club, they occasionally attend lectures by visiting speakers. But the vast majority are more consistent in their devotion to the moving pictures, a technical discussion of the tactics employed in the Oshkosh-Podunk football game absorbs them more than a good book, and the bridge table is more popular than the lecture hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... Knowledge and Learning" | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

...managing the initiations. Women students* are regularly seen in the Yard [main campus] and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures. . . . A passerby on Quincy street was embarrassed by public aspersion on his virility. . . ." Until five years ago, when Hasty Pudding merged with the Institute of 1770 (eating club), Hasty Pudding conducted its rituals, like most other Harvard saturnalia, in private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Drunken Pudding | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Jonas with $1,250,000 worth of paintings and antiques to swell Manhattan's winter exhibitions. Included were Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman; furniture used by Louis XIV; canvases painted by Ivan F. Choultse, court painter to the late Tsar Nicholas II. Court Painter Choultse will attend the showing of his work next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Known to few but the most alert tourists is peaceful, rose brick, medieval Albi, high-pitched above the river Tarn in southern France. News agencies turned toward Albi last week. Paris reporters trod its cobbled streets to attend and report the trial of Albi's famed "acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Acid Bandits | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...team coaches and their assistants, the Athletic Committee, the Administrative Board, and the Dean and Assistant Deans of Harvard College will attend the dinner. Dr. Roger I. Lee '02 will also speak. Dr. Lee was formerly professor of Hygiene and is the founder of the present system of physical education at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARNEGIE REPORT AUTHOR ADDRESSES H.A.A. OFFICERS | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

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